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* ''Fanfic/ClearSkies'' is about a plot to disrupt a [[VideoGame/EVEOnline Gallente-Caldari peace conference]], [[spoiler: by crashing a Titan into the space station it's taking place on]].

** "The Mind of Evil" has the Master hijacking a chemical-armed missile aiming to use it on a world peace conference.
** That conference didn't work, as another one was held a year later to stop a situation turning into WorldWarThree. In "Day of the Daleks," a bomb going off starts that war and leads to the Daleks taking over Earth, which was what some guerrillas have traveled back in time to prevent by killing the man they thought was responsible. [[spoiler: He wasn't and by blowing up the conference themselves, they caused their own problem. The Doctor is able to prevent this from occurring.]]

* The original ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' opened with a peace conference intended to end a thousand-year war between the human Twelve Colonies and the Cylons. [[spoiler: For anyone who a.) hasn't seen the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' yet b.) nonetheless cares about spoilers, the "peace conference" is really an evil and almost entirely successful plot by the bad guys to lure the good guys into a trap and wipe them out.]]

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* ''Fanfic/ClearSkies'' is about a plot to disrupt a [[VideoGame/EVEOnline Gallente-Caldari peace conference]], [[spoiler: by crashing a Titan into the space station it's taking place on]].
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* ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' has one of the most odd cases. At the start of the first ever Autobot-Decepticon alliance. [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] and [[BigBad Megatron]] meet at a peace conference and shake hands to commemorate the alliance, along with several other Autobots and Decepticons (who have mixed feelings about said alliance).

* Pops up surprisingly often in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', usually under risk of sabotage and the girls having to stop said sabotage.

** The Austrian-mediated Treaty of Bordeaux, which ended the Franco-Spanish War. Aside from bringing hostilities to an end, it also forces Spain to recognize the independence of France's allies in Navarre and the Netherlands.

* Creator/TimothyZahn's ''HandOfThrawn'' duology had, as one of a great many plot points, the [[FourStarBadass Supreme Commander]] of the [[VestigialEmpire Imperial Remnant]], Pellaeon, realizing that the only way what [[TheRemnant was left of the Empire]] would survive was if they signed a peace treaty with the New Republic. Of course some of his people resisted, leading to about three-fourths of the events of that duology as they kidnapped his diplomatic envoy, sent pirates [[FalseFlagOperation masquerading as New Republic forces]] to attack him, and decided to make it look like the greatest military mind the galaxy had known was BackFromTheDead and didn't want the war to end. Eventually, Pellaeon prevailed. And it worked, even if there were still factions that refused to accept this.

[[caption-width-right:350: The Chief of State of the [[TheAlliance New Republic]] and the Supreme Commander of the [[TheEmpire Imperial fleet]] call off the war. [[PuttingOnTheReich Guess which is which]].]]

* Since the Big One at Paris, these aren't so common; the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations more or less exists to serve as a permanent peace conference. However, some important ones occurred after the TheGreatPoliticsMessUp (the 1995 one at Dayton settling the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 1993 one at Oslo between the [[ArabIsraeliConflict Israelis and Palestinians]] being the most notable).

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals 2'': Most of the world's politicians and diplomats go to one of these... And [[WarOnTerror thanks to terrorists]], [[BoardToDeath they don't come back]], leaving the eponymous [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Generals to seize control of all the nations.]]

* The original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' opened with a peace conference intended to end a thousand-year war between the human Twelve Colonies and the Cylons. [[spoiler: For anyone who a.) hasn't seen the original ''Battlestar Galactica'' yet b.) nonetheless cares about spoilers, the "peace conference" is really an evil and almost entirely successful plot by the bad guys to lure the good guys into a trap and wipe them out.]]

** The [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 reboot]] starts with something similar, but different: The Colonies and the Cylons had an Armistice Line, and an agreement to meet once a year on a little station on the line where representatives of each side would presumably sit across a table from one another, stare at each other for a while, and then go home. This arrangement is remarkably similar to the arrangement for the Panmunjom Conference between the US-led UN coalition and North Korea set up at the end of UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar and has been going on continuously ever since (see RealLife, below). Except...the Cylons don't send anyone. Ever. No one has seen the Cylons presumably since the peace agreement 40 years before the series begins. [[spoiler:Eventually, the Cylons walk in one fateful meeting and shoot the Colonial representative, starting the war.]]

* ''Fanfic/ClearSkies'' is about a plot to disrupt a [[EVEOnline Gallente-Caldari peace conference]], [[spoiler: by crashing a Titan into the space station it's taking place on]].

* TimothyZahn's ''HandOfThrawn'' duology had, as one of a great many plot points, the [[FourStarBadass Supreme Commander]] of the [[VestigialEmpire Imperial Remnant]], Pellaeon, realizing that the only way what [[TheRemnant was left of the Empire]] would survive was if they signed a peace treaty with the New Republic. Of course some of his people resisted, leading to about three-fourths of the events of that duology as they kidnapped his diplomatic envoy, sent pirates [[FalseFlagOperation masquerading as New Republic forces]] to attack him, and decided to make it look like the greatest military mind the galaxy had known was BackFromTheDead and didn't want the war to end. Eventually, Pellaeon prevailed. And it worked, even if there were still factions that refused to accept this.

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** Degwin Zabi, sovereign of Zeon, attempts a peace talk with the Federation near the end of the series, as he's tired of the war and has lost two of his children to it. The peace talks end in failure when both parties are vaporized by Gihren Zabi's WaveMotionGun.

Since not everyone is interested in peace, someone will probably try to sabotage the talks- usually with a FalseFlagOperation. Sometimes the more evil side just wants access to the other side's leadership, but typically peace talks are a good sign that [[WhiteAndGreyMorality neither]] [[GreyAndGreyMorality side]] is entirely evil, and both are in fact fairly reasonable.

* ''TransformersArmada'' has one of the most odd cases. At the start of the first ever Autobot-Decepticon alliance. [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] and [[BigBad Megatron]] meet at a peace conference and shake hands to commemorate the alliance, along with several other Autobots and Decepticons (who have mixed feelings about said alliance).

* ''CommandAndConquerGenerals 2'': Most of the world's politicians and diplomats [[http://www.gamespot.com/news/command-and-conquer-generals-2-coming-from-bioware-victory-6347422 go to]] one of these... And [[WarOnTerror thanks to terrorists]], [[BoardToDeath they don't come back]], leaving the eponymous [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Generals to seize control of all the nations.]]

* ''SuikodenIII'' opens with a cease-fire agreement being negoiated by the Grassland Clans and the Zexen Confederacy, while the Holy Kingdom of Harmonia is waiting for a secret treaty to ''expire'' so they can launch a new offensive. Needless to say, since this is the ''start'' of the game, the treaty meeting doesn't go well.

* In the Soviet campaign of RedAlert3, [[spoiler: Cherdenko]] uses one as a trap to [[spoiler: decapitate the Allied leadership]].
** One mission in the Allied campaign in the Yuri's Revenge expansion to Red Alert 2 centres around a peace conference between the Allies and the Soviets, with the aim to stop shooting at each other and focus on shooting at Yuri's forces. Despite Yuri's attempts to interfere or taking advantage of most world leaders being gathered in London, it succeeds.

* The intro to ''{{Starlancer}}'' shows the Coalition and the Alliance meeting for peace talks, when the Coalition reveals it has brought a cloaked armada and proceeds to wipe out a large chunk of the Alliance SpaceNavy. Despite this, the war lasts nearly a century.

* Used in ''WargameEuropeanEscalation'', at the end of a campaign which proposes that West and East Germany went to war over the defection of Werner Weinhold. The final mission involves holding off a Warsaw Pact attack on a NATO salient, with a timer ticking down until a ceasefire agreement in signed. The Pact forces bring out one last offensive push as the timer goes to zero--only for the negotiations to deadlock and the mission to continue for a few minutes more!

* The UrExample (in the West at least) is the Congress of Westphalia of 1648, where all the princes great and small involved in the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar got their heads together to end both this war and the EightyYearsWar. In the process, the Congress defined the concept of state sovereignty and declared {{pira|te}}cy universally illegal, giving any country the right to try any pirate it caught.

* In AdvanceWars 2, [[spoiler: Adder]] uses one as a trap against Yellow Comet's commanders. [[HonorBeforeReason Kanbei]] insisted on at least hearing [[spoiler: Adder]] out, despite Sonja's objections.

* The next few centuries were peppered with peace conferences, the most famous being the Congress of Vienna (1815) to end the [[NapoleonBonaparte Napoleonic Wars]], the Congress of Berlin (1878) to [[BalkanizeMe reorganize the Balkans]], and the Paris Peace Conference (1919) to end UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne.

* In the backstory of ''MobileSuitGundam'', the Antarctic Conference was held after the utterly disastrous opening week of war between the Federation and Zeon, which had a death toll in the billions due to rampant use of chemical and nuclear weapons on both sides. Though it started out as peace negotiations, it later turned to arms reduction, and eventually culminated in the Antarctic Treaty, which had several major tenets: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons were not allowed, Zeon was not allowed to ColonyDrop Earth, prisoners of war were to be treated humanely, and the Side 6 colonies were officially neutral territory.

* Preventing one of these from happening between Manticore and Haven is a major plot point in ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington At All Costs]]'' and the failure of the previous one is the major reason for the resumption of hostilities in ''War of Honor''.
** Also featured prominently in ''Mission of Honor'' and ''A Rising Thunder'', though it's not quite as formal as most. [[spoiler:And by "not quite as formal" we mean "the President of the Republic of Haven shanghaied most of her Cabinet and paid an unannounced call on the queen of Manticore". Yeah.]]